Revolution - Part 1, The Jacobins and the French Revolution

Medium ^ | March 25, 2020 | Joel Northrup

[babylon_times]

I get the same feeling...

[babylon_times]

We must be diligent, as there are many that would have us in America go through a communist revolution.

[Publius]

There was a massacre of Carmelite nuns at Compiegne. Francis Poulenc turned this episode into an opera in 1959, titled "Dialogues of the Carmelites." This is the hair-raising finale of the opera, the execution of the nuns by guillotine handled in a stylized manner.

[sasportas]

They paraded a whore through the streets of Paris in the French Revolution, as a symbol of their rejection of “revelation,” i.e., the Biblical revelation of truth; and their exaltation of “reason,” i.e., humanism, evolution, and socialism.

[hope_dies_last]

Bkmrk

[hondact200]

Napoleon was an abject failure. Look what happened to the French troops that went to Russia.

[Finnwolf]

Yes the Jacobins were the Bolsheviks of their time. And like when Robespierre was executed so were many of the original Bolsheviks. Lenin too if he was actually murdered by Stalin.....

[dblshot]

I applied for a job running a guillotine in Paris. If I get it I’ll be heading there soon.

[Sans-Culotte]

Francis Poulenc turned this episode into an opera in 1959, titled "Dialogues of the Carmelites."

It has become the norm to present the ending of Dialogues of the Carmelites "symbolically" as in your link. Indeed, few operas are done realistically any longer these days. I much prefer to see the nuns walk up the scaffold one by one until their numbers decrease to the last two as was done HERE.

The Met also did a good one in which the nuns walk toward the back of the stage seen HERE. (This clip is very poor quality).